Le jeu. 28 févr. 2019 à 11:18, Francis <francisd@gmail.com> a écrit :
Le mar. 26 févr. 2019 à 22:58, David Myers <david.myers.24j74@gmail.com> a écrit :
Hello Francis,

I wonder if this is due to how a cluster is configured to function internally.

Tell us more about the cluster, is it one of those ‘fancy pants’ high availability, auto backup heart beat things, or is it more a traditional multi server (master slave style) setup. 

Either way you may need to disconnect the servers from one another and delete the offending files / directories either via dove or or via the os (although reading your original email it sounds like you are already attempting this).

If you have a fancy cluster this may actually be more difficult than it sounds and have interesting (unwanted) side effects, also the underlying database (if you are storing emails that way) may have a method to remove data

I assume you are keeping back up copies of all those emails somewhere, just in case you need them in the future. 

See this wiki article to better understand what I mean by the ‘fancy pants’ clusters :
They sound very cool, but I suspect are overkill for a mail server, unless your database is already inside one then it would make sense I guess. 


Hello,

I just use the cluster/replication functionality integrated into dovecot, nothing more. There is no database involved. I use LDAP for the authentication. The mails are stored locally on each server and replicated with the replication feature of dovecot.

I followed this wiki article: https://wiki.dovecot.org/Replication


Hello,

So nobody use the replication feature? or nobody never ever remove a mailbox? or maybe my question is so dumb and I should RTFM something? :) 

Do you need more information to help me to debug that issue?

Thanks.

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Francis